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Tamil Nadu steps up vigil on border as tomato fever spreads in Kerala

After reports of tomato fever or flu spreading among children, the Tamil Nadu health authority has enhanced its vigilance at all checkpoints bordering Kerala. To scan youngsters under the age of five, health, police, and revenue authorities have been stationed at Walayar check post in Palakkad district, Kalliyakavali in Thiruvananthapuram, and Theni check posts. “The tomato flu or fever is a self-limiting one and there are no specific drugs for it,” a senior official with the Tamil Nadu health department told IANS. “If someone is affected with this disease, they should be kept in isolation as it spread fast from one person to the other.” The tomato flu, also known as tomato fever, is characterised by red rashes and blisters, thus the name. This flu causes severe fever and body aches in children under the age of five, as well as blisters and rashes on the skin. Three teams have been deployed at each check post, according to a Tamil Nadu health department official, to prevent children with rashes and blisters from entering the state. Dehydration, stomach pain, diarrhoea, nausea, and vomiting are very common symptoms among infected children. Tomato flu has been reported in numerous districts across Kerala, prompting state health minister Veena George to send a caution about the disease. Source: IANS

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Byju’s in talks with banks for $1 billion funding

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Byju’s, India’s most valuable startup, is in talks with lenders to acquire more than $1 billion in acquisition financing as the online education provider looks to aggressively grow its business, people familiar with the situation stated. The Bangalore-based market leader is in talks with banks, including Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co., for funding to takeover another edtech company, according to the sources, who asked not to be named as the information is not public. They didn’t say anything about the acquisition target and said that the terms of the transaction and the funding are yet to be finalized. Byju’s, helmed by former teacher Byju Raveendran, has been buying up businesses offering coding lessons, professional learning courses, and test prep programmes for competitive Indian examinations in recent years in the US and overseas. Bloomberg reported earlier this year that the business was valued at $22 billion after raising funds this year and is working on plans for an initial public offering. JPMorgan and Byju’s representatives declined to comment on the financing. Morgan Stanley representative did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment right away. According to information on the platform’s website, the platform’s app has been downloaded more than 150 million times, and clients spend an average of 71 minutes each day on it. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, Naspers Ltd., Tiger Global Management, and Sequoia Capital India have all invested in the company, which is formally known as Think & Learn Pvt. Ltd. After schools and tutoring centres were forced to close their doors due to the Covid-19 pandemic, forcing parents, teachers, and students to seek alternative learning resources, the popularity of online classes soared in the country of almost 1.4 billion people with one of the world’s youngest populations. Byju’s has also expanded its product portfolio to include one-on-one coaching with teachers in India and other countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, and Australia. Source: Economic Times

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Indian citizens and students are now eligible for a booster shot, according to the health minister

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People travelling overseas can now get Covid booster shots if they need them, according to the Center. This follows NTAGI’s recommendation to reduce the time between the second and third shots for persons travelling abroad. “Indian citizens & students travelling overseas can now take the precaution dose as required by the guidelines of the destination country.” Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya wrote on Twitter. The National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization (NTAGI) said on Wednesday that those who want to go overseas can shorten the nine-month gap between the second and booster doses of the covid-19 vaccine, as required by the government. The recommendation was later forwarded to the Union Health ministry. Several requests for the precaution dose of Covid vaccine have been received by the Centre in recent months from people who need to travel abroad for work, business, admission to foreign educational institutes, participation in sports events, and bilateral and multilateral meetings as part of India’s official delegation. “The issue was discussed in a meeting of NTAGI held last week after which it recommended that those who need to travel overseas can take the booster shot, before the stipulated nine-month waiting period, as per the booster guidelines of the country they are travelling to,” a source told PTI. Meanwhile, NTAGI is meeting again this week to analyse data for covid-19 immunisation of children aged 5 to 12 years old and to finalise vaccination protocols. The results of the last two meetings were inconclusive, with NTAGI experts remaining sceptical of the paediatric data available for vaccination. Source: Mint

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Vodafone Idea has partnered with SonyLIV to expand its content offerings

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Vodafone Idea (Vi) has partnered with SonyLIV, a video streaming network owned by Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI), to provide premium content offerings. Vi has launched a new Rs 82 add-on recharge that includes a free 28-day mobile only subscription to SonyLIV Premium as well as a 4GB data benefit with a 14-day validity, according to a statement released by the company on Monday. “The new proposition will enable all Vi prepaid users to enjoy SonyLIV Premium without having to worry about data quota,” the company added. This is the latest in the teleco’s efforts to use entertainment to generate engagement touchpoints. The Vi Play feature in Vi’s app houses a variety of entertainment options. 60,000 hours of full-length movies and a range of Indian and international shows are available on the app. Vi Play also has news channel feeds in Hindi, English, and other Indian languages. Sports properties such as the UEFA Champions League, WWE, Bundesliga, and UFC will be among the content offerings under this partnership. Vi users will also have access to the platform’s originals catalogue, which includes films such as Scam 1992 – The Harshad Mehta Story, Maharani, Tabbar, Rocket Boys, and Gullak Season 3. The content library will contain international shows such as The Good Doctor, Fantasy Island, and Magpie Murders, in addition to India originals.

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IISc Bangalore has launched an advanced certification programme in 5G Technologies

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IISc Bangalore and edtech startup TalentSprint have collaborated to create a PG Level advanced certification programme in 5G technologies. Working professionals with engineering or similar degrees and at least two years of experience are eligible for the programme. Interested candidates may visit iisc.talentsprint.com/5g/ to apply online. The programme is divided into two parts: one is a 9-month Executive Program with Advanced Certification in 5G Technologies with AI and Cloud, and the other is a 6-month Executive Program with Advanced Certification in 5G Technologies, which includes a campus visit to IISc Bangalore and live interactive sessions with IISc faculty and industry experts. The executive-friendly programme will ensure that participants become early adopters of 5G apps and develop a solid career in a world powered by 5G. Professor Chandra R. Murthy will lead a team of researchers and specialists who will deliver the curriculum on TalentSprint’s digital platform ipearl.ai. The programme intends to prepare tech professionals to be at the vanguard of the rapidly evolving 5G communication arena, as well as a myriad of other applications in a variety of industries.

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Medikabazaar has completed a successful test of drone delivery of medical supplies

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New Delhi: Medikabazaar is paving the way for the next big thing in healthcare supply chain management by using drones to transport medical supplies to B2B space. In accordance with Medikabazaar’s objective of revolutionising healthcare, the company has started a trial drone project with Redwing Labs to transport medical supplies and evaluate the potential of drones as a last-mile delivery option, particularly in emergency situations. In Bengaluru, the first scheduled test drone delivery was completed successfully. The trial in Bengaluru aimed to deliver medical supplies by drone. The drone in use has a maximum range of 35 kilometres and can transport payloads weighing one to ten kilogrammes. The initiative seeks to provide medical supplies to many places in rural, urban, and semi-urban areas, including those where traditional forms of distribution take much longer due to difficult terrain. Medikabazaar’s pilot initiative seeks to have a large-scale influence and dedication to revolutionise healthcare by making it available to even the most remote locations for emergency situations. Vivek Tiwari, CEO & Founder of Medikabazaar emphasised on the initiative saying, “The ‘Pilot Drone Project’ using drones is in line with our commitment to transform healthcare by way of technology. Faster delivery of critical and emergency medical supplies, vaccines, lifesaving drugs, devices, and equipment can be a great contributor to saving lives. This project is one of the first such programmes in the country where drones are used to deliver medical supplies to hospital centres. The vision is to ensure easy healthcare accessibility throughout the nation, from the most populous to the most remote areas of India in the near future.” In addition, the effort aims to reduce the load on frontline health professionals and supply chain management. Drones that transport medical supplies straight to hospitals save time and assist healthcare staff in providing better patient care. Source: Economic Times

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BharatPe to overhaul its governance model, sack several employees

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Following a corporate governance review, BharatPe’s board of directors recommended several actions, including terminating some employees and vendors and initiating criminal charges against them for misconduct. BharatPe, which lets shop owners to make digital payments through QR codes and is planning an IPO, launched a corporate governance review in January to assuage investor concerns amid a public conflict regarding one of its co-founders’ personal investments. The company, which competes in India’s booming payments market with apps like SoftBank’s Paytm and Google Pay, came under intense investor and media scrutiny after co-founder Ashneer Grover sought damages from Uday Kotak, the head of Kotak Mahindra Bank, alleging that the bank denied him financing for a personal investment. According to Reuters, the audit will determine whether BharatPe’s senior officials are making sufficient internal disclosures regarding personal investments and will look for conflicts, resulting to the creation of a new code of conduct. The board of BharatPe has recommended various decisive steps that are being implemented after a careful examination of a report to find deliberate misconduct and gross negligence by a former founder during the last two months, the firm said in a statement. BharatPe said it was implementing a new vendor procurement policy to reduce the danger of staff engaging in suspicious activities to profit themselves, and that numerous individuals in departments who were directly associated with blacklisted vendors had their jobs terminated. “Many vendors involved in malpractices, such as incorrect or inflated invoices, have been blocked for further business with the company… the company has already issued legal notices to these vendors to recover the amount and will be filing civil or criminal cases against them in the coming days,” BharatPe added.

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Cognizant plans to hire 50,000 freshers in India this year

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Cognizant Technology Solutions, a US-based software giant plans to hire 50,000 freshers in India this year. When the need arises, it will also hire experienced laterals. Cognizant employs over 75% of its workforce in India. In the first quarter, the company hired around 9,800 people. Cognizant reported a 10% increase in revenue to $4.8 billion in its financial results. This expansion can be linked to greater digitalization in businesses around the world. For the fourth year in a row, Cognizant has achieved double-digit growth. Not surprisingly, the Company’s digital division accounted for half of its total sales. In addition to the demand for digitalisation, the Company has made significant investments in this area, with 50% of its personnel having digital technology skills. Although attrition appears to have decreased marginally, it is impossible to predict whether this trend will continue. In the first quarter, attrition was 26%, down from 31% in the December quarter and 33% in the September quarter. The Company intends to keep attrition low by continuing to invest in learning, career path development, upskilling opportunities, and competitive pay packages. Promotions were also double in the previous year compared to the year before. Around one lakh employees were trained in new digital skills in 2021. That means about 23 million hours of learning were spent on around 1,30,000 courses.

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Delhi University VC urges to look into students’ shortfall in enrolment under reserved categories

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In a written letter, the Forum of Academics for Social Justice has asked Yogesh Singh, vice chancellor of Delhi University (DU), to examine admission data from the previous five years and look into the shortfall in enrolment of students from reserved categories before beginning the admission process this year. Hansraj Suman, the forum’s chairman and a former member of the DU’s Academic Council, alleges that university colleges annually admit more students than sanctioned seats, while reserved seats remain unoccupied. “Before starting the admission process under scheduled tribes (ST), other backward classes (OBC) and persons with disabilities (PWD) quota, the data of the last five years should be analysed. It will show that colleges have given more admissions than the sanctioned seats, while the reserved seats are not filled in return. Every year the seats of reserved categories remain vacant,” the letter stated. According to Suman, DU colleges make 10% more admissions than the sanctioned seats each year, and most colleges do not fill reserved seats on the increased seats. He has also requested Singh to form a college monitoring committee that will prepare a report on the lack of facilities at these institutions. “Delhi University should constitute a monitoring committee for the colleges at its level. Only teachers of reserved classes should be kept in this committee. The committee should visit these colleges and talk to the teachers or staff or students on their problems. Talk to those students on the problems faced by them and prepare a report on the lack of facilities in the colleges,” he stated. Last month, the DU vice-chancellor appointed an eight-member committee to investigate the “shortfall” in enrolment of SC and ST students at the university. Dean of Students Welfare Pankaj Arora chairs the committee, with Joint Dean of Students Welfare Gurpreet Singh serving as member secretary. “The Vice-Chancellor has constituted a committee to examine the issue regarding shortfall in the enrolment of the SC, ST students and make a recommendation to enhance the enrolment of SC, ST students in the University of Delhi with immediate effect,” the official notification had stated. Source: PTI

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ArdorComm- Higher Education and EdTech Conclave & Awards 2022 held on 6th May 2022 at Pune, Maharashtra; #HEETpune

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ArdorComm Media Group (A Media Start-up) hosted the ‘HIGHER EDUCATION and EDTECH CONCLAVE & AWARDS 2022’ as the 1st & Biggest ‘Physical Event’ in Pune, Maharashtra on 6th May 2022 (Friday). The Summit’s theme focused on ‘Empowering Higher Education community with Ed-Tech collaboration to voyage from Education 4.0 to Education 5.0’. This Knowledge forum invited policymakers, higher education leaders, innovators, and Edtech experts to share their experiences, ideas, and accomplishments that have helped the growth of the education community during the tough times of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 250 attendees from over 135 institutions from Maharashtra & rest of India united under one roof for a mission to co-create, co-learn, and collaborate for Innovation & growth of the Higher Education sector. Thus, Featuring Maharashtra as a ‘Higher Education & EdTech Hub’ of the Country. The conclave witnessed who’s who from government, universities, colleges, engineering institutes, B-schools and skill institutions, and experts from corporate, EdTech companies & education startups. Deliberating, showcasing & presenting best & next practices in higher, skill & technical education. Chandan Anand, Founder, CEO & Group Editor of ArdorComm Media Group, emphasized on the event theme saying, ‘’The goal of Education 5.0 is to transform the current educational system into one that is centered on action and outcomes. Despite repeated attempts to offer proper training, evaluation, and related assistance, the actual figures for employable graduates each year are alarming. As a result, the gap between industry demands versus employable-skilled human capital continues to widen. The transformation shift from Education 4.0 to Education 5.0 is about co-creating the socio-digital ecosystem which could ease the dynamics of teaching-learning-skilling-employing youth (Gen-Z & Millennials).” Coursera for Campus participated as the ‘Presenting partner’ of ‘Ardorcomm- Higher Education and EdTech Conclave & Awards 2022’; Anthology as the Powered by Partner; Serosoft (Academia ERP) Solutions Pvt. Ltd. as the ERP partner; D2L as Ed-tech partner; ELSA as Training and Placement partner. The Associate partners of the event were Eduvacancy, Financepeer, Intercell – Virtual Mentor Network, LeadSquared, MasterSoft, MONET Live, SAS and Wiley. The Knowledge partner of the event was Savitribai Phule Pune University and the University partners were Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth and Centre for Open & Digital Education – Hindustan Online. The Institute partner of the event was ASM Group of Institutes, Pune. The special guests, eminent speakers, experts, academicians & educators from universities, engineering institutions, B-schools, EdTech & education startups who graced the event with their presence at ‘ArdorComm- Higher Education and EdTech Conclave, Pune’ were: Dr. Ganesh Natarajan, Chairman, Honeywell Automation Chairman & Founder, 5F World Director, SBI; Dr. Parin Somani, International Motivational Speaker & Academic Scholar Author, Humanitarian and Philanthropist, TEDx Speaker; Chetan S Wakalkar, Managing Trustee & Group Director, Indira Group of Institutes, Pune; Vivek Iyer, Vice President – Asia Pacific. Anthology; Dulles Krishnan, Managing Director Enterprise – India and ANZ, Coursera; Sanjay Padode, Founding President and Chancellor, Vijaybhoomi University; Chairman, JAGSOM; Prof. (Dr.) G.K.Shirude, Vice-Chancellor, Sri Balaji University; Pune; Dr. Sandeep Pachpande, Chairman, ASM Group of Institutes, Pune; Vibha Mahajan, Senior Director, Wiley; Vaibhav Anand, Country Manager – India, ELSA Corporation; Prof. (Dr.) M. M. Salunkhe, Vice-Chancellor, Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University); Dr. Siddharth Jabade, Vice-Chancellor, Vishwakarma University, Pune; Dr. Sayalee Gankar, Vice-Chancellor, D Y Patil University, Ambi, Pune; Dr. Eknath B. Khedkar, Vice President, D Y Patil Group & Pro-Chancellor, Ajeenkya D Y Patil University, Pune (ADYP); Dr. Adya Sharma, Director, Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies, Pune; Gaurav Somani, President Sales, Mastersoft; Maunish Pandya, Head- Business Development, Serosoft (Academia ERP); Ashwani Kumar Singh, Head- Branding & Communications, Serosoft (Academia ERP); Dr. Apoorva Palkar, Director- Innovation Incubation & Linkage, Savitribai Phule Pune University; Dr. Sachin S. Vernekar, Dean – FMS Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University), Director- IMED, Pune; Dr. P. Vatsalaswamy, Director IQAC, Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune; Jitendra Patil, Campus Director, Universal College of Engineering; Dr. Sandip Sane, Director, IBMR, ASM Group of Institutes, Pune; Prof. Laxman Kumar Tripathy, Director, SaiBalaji International Institute of Management Sciences; Karun Dube, Head -Business, Intercell; Rakesh Malaviya, Chief Operating Officer, Head Monet-India; Anand Vats, Manager, Monet India Design Center; Murali Krishna, VP, Sales, LeadSquared; Dr. Sanjay Jha, Director (Liberal Arts), Amity University; Dr. Safia Farooqui, Director, Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Centre for Online Learning; Dr. Ganesh Rao, Director, Pune Business School; Dr. Debjani Banerjee, Associate Dean & Accreditation Consultant, Member Secretary, IQAC VES Business School; Dr.Tejas B. Vyas, Director, Global Business School, Hubli; Dr. Ashok Agrawal, Principal, Kannada Sangha Pune’s Kaveri College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Ganeshnagar, Pune; Dr. Indu Sharma, Director IAQC, MITCON Institute of Management; Prof. Dr. C.M. Sedani, Principal, Padambhushan Vasantdada Patil Institute of Technology, Pune and many more. Ardorcomm Media – Higher Education Awards & EdTech Awards aimed to acknowledge those individuals, educational institutions, and Ed-tech companies that have played a key role in transforming the teaching, learning and employability outcomes. The prestigious award recognized & honoured innovators, trendsetters, and educators in the higher education sector. Key Discussion Points of ‘ArdorComm – Higher Education and EdTech Conclave & Awards 2022’: Education 4.0 to 5.0: A transformational shift in the education system. Reinventing higher education through the ‘PHYGITAL’ mode of learning. How can the setting up of ‘Digital Universities’ as per Union Budget 2022 help in getting world-class education? Can Distance Learning and MOOCs play a pivotal role in Higher Education in India? Skill development and multidisciplinary approach: A robust education eco-system. How the new age technologies like AI, ML, IoT are changing India’s higher education landscape? Key Highlights of ‘ArdorComm – Higher Education and Edtech Conclave & Awards 2022’: Days: 1 Panel Sessions: 5 Industry Presentations: 7 Speakers: 45+ Delegates & Attendees: 250+ Higher Education Institutes (Universities + Engineering Institutes + B-Schools): 135+ Education Corporate & EdTech Startups: 25+ ‘Ardorcomm- Higher Education and EdTech Conclave & Awards 2022’ was an important knowledge-sharing platform of the education community that cared deeply about imparting education and making teaching-learning process smoother and accessible to all. It highlighted a glimpse of the higher education fraternity comprising India’s top

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